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Timothy Snyder is a Yale history professor whose pamphlet, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, provided progressives a historical road map for resisting the abuses of the first Trump administration. (First lesson: “Do not obey in advance.”) Snyder predicted that Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss could lead to …

This article was copublished with The Lever, an investigative newsroom. If you like this story, sign up for The Lever’s free newsletter. At 5:30 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 19, with the sky still pitch black, the parking lot of the Executive Education Academy in Allentown, Pennsylvania, was unusually active. The …

“A Katy Perry marching band? This is going to be the gayest day ever,” says the curly-haired woman watching as a 17-piece group works their way through “Firework,” and then follows it up with a jaunty rendition of Kesha’s “Timber.” She chuckles. “I must be in the right place.” It’s …

On Oct. 5, 2024, Mayor Amer Ghalib convened a modest crowd in Hamtramck, Michigan, a densely populated enclave of metro Detroit, known as the only Muslim-majority city in America and home to a large Yemeni community. In footage live-streamed on YouTube, around 40 people gathered, some snapping selfies, others standing …

The hurricane split pine trees like toothpicks. It chewed up chain link fences and laid highway billboards flat on their faces. It peeled the roof off Tropicana Field, where the Tampa Bay Rays play, and uncorked dozens of tornadoes, including one that ripped through a retirement community in St. Lucie …

I t’s seven days out from the election and Tim Walz still knows who he is. In the past week, Walz has called Elon Musk a “dipshit” in the presence of Barack Obama, cleaned up Joe Biden’s “garbage” remarks on the morning television shows, played video games with AOC, and …

Donald Trump and his allies in Congress and election offices throughout the country have a variety of tools to dismantle the will of voters and install Trump as president — Tuesday’s election results be damned. Much of the nation was shocked when attempts to overturn the 2020 election culminated in …

VANCOUVER, Washington — Joe Kent is nervous, and he keeps checking the clock on his phone. A far-right candidate for the House, with connections to white nationalists, Kent is making his closing pitch to GOP voters at a town hall in Vancouver, Washington, a commuter city across the river from …

BROOKLYN, Iowa — It’s been more than six years since Mollie Tibbetts, a 20-year-old studying at the University of Iowa, was murdered near her family’s house. Her mother, Laura Calderwood, says that in the years since, every night she is at home, she still walks down her second-floor hall to …

On July 29, 2024, a man stabbed several people at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in the seaside town of Southport in northern England, killing three young children. As their deaths shocked the nation, rumors about the attacker’s identity quickly spread online. Far-right provocateurs like Andrew Tate — who was …